This role is for a modern product builder who can identify meaningful product opportunities within existing categories, quickly develop compelling concepts, and prove their market viability and profitability. The specialist will bring an outside-in view of culture, retail, materials, aesthetics, and consumer behavior to translate signals into fresh products, utilizing AI-enabled tools for rapid concept development.
Responsibilities
Build a continuous pipeline of differentiated product ideas within established categories, grounded in consumer needs, emerging trends, competitive gaps, retail signals, and marketplace data
Use ChatGPT and other generative-AI tools as an everyday product-development workspace for research synthesis, concept generation, design iteration, visual briefs, quick product renderings, packaging directions, feature comparisons, and decision support
Move rapidly from a rough idea to a clear concept: consumer problem, target user, feature set, materials, dimensions, aesthetic direction, prototype visuals, target cost, target retail price, and reason to believe
Create and refine quick prototypes with AI, designers, engineers, suppliers, and sample makers
Know when a fast visual is enough to make a decision and when physical validation is required
Bring fresh design language, colors, materials, finishes, form factors, and use cases into existing product categories without chasing trends that lack commercial durability
Build the product economics early, developing target landed cost, MSRP, channel margin, contribution margin, freight and duty assumptions, packaging impact, minimum order implications, and sensitivity scenarios before a concept advances
Evaluate opportunities for Amazon, DTC, social commerce, and retail channels, recognizing that the winning feature set, price architecture, and storytelling may differ by channel
Write sharp product briefs that give sourcing, design, packaging, content, and marketing partners what they need to act quickly
Work directly with domestic and international suppliers to assess feasibility, negotiate toward cost targets, improve prototypes, and resolve tradeoffs without diluting the core consumer benefit
Kill weak ideas early, learn quickly from failed concepts, and keep the strongest opportunities moving with urgency and ownership
Present a clear point of view to leadership: what to build, why it can win, what it should cost, how it should look, and what must be true to proceed
Requirements
Evidence of modern product-building ability
Portfolio or concrete examples showing products, concepts, prototypes, or businesses helped create, and the decisions personally driven
Demonstrated use of ChatGPT, image-generation tools, or related AI workflows to improve research, ideation, design communication, prototyping, or speed to market
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Strong understanding of consumer-product economics, including landed cost, margin, price positioning, MOQ, freight, duties, packaging, and channel fees
Ability to interpret marketplace data, reviews, competitive assortments, search behavior, social signals, and retail activity without allowing spreadsheets to replace judgment
Experience collaborating directly with designers, engineers, sourcing teams, manufacturers, or overseas suppliers
Clear written and visual communication
Strong prioritization
Resilience to manage multiple fast-moving concepts
Willingness to work on-site in the Greater St. Louis area
Willingness to travel domestically or internationally when product discovery or supplier development requires it
Important Details
Work format: On-site
About the Company
The company is a family-owned enterprise specializing in consumer products and innovative solutions for everyday challenges. It designs, develops, markets, and distributes its product lines directly to consumers through social-commerce platforms, as well as to major global retailers. Its product collections focus on home and housewares, impulse items, pet supplies, health and beauty, and automotive appearance accessories.
